The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 'What! Never heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, I suppose?'
鷹頭獅驚奇地舉起了爪子說：“你沒聽說過丑法！我想，你知道什么叫美法吧！”

'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it means--to--make--anything--prettier.'
愛麗絲拿不準(zhǔn)地說：“是的，那是……讓什么……東西……變得好看些。”

'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.'
“那么，”鷹頭獅繼續(xù)說，“你不知道什么是丑法，真算得上是個(gè)傻瓜了?！?/div>

Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said 'What else had you to learn?'
愛麗絲不敢再談?wù)撨@個(gè)題目了，她轉(zhuǎn)向素甲魚問道：“你們還學(xué)些什么呢？”

'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then?Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old congereel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'
“我們還學(xué)栗柿，”素甲魚麗著手指頭說，“栗柿有古代栗柿和現(xiàn)代栗柿，還學(xué)地梨，還學(xué)灰花。我們的灰花老師是一條老鰻魚，一星期來一次，教我們水菜花和素苗花。”

'What was THAT like?' said Alice.
“它們是什么樣子的呢？”愛麗絲問道。

'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: 'I'm too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
“我沒法做給你看，我太遲鈍了。而鷹頭獅又沒學(xué)過?！彼丶佐~說。

'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the Classics master, though. He was an old crab, HE was.'
“我沒時(shí)間?。　柄楊^獅說，“不過我聽過外語老師的課，它是一只老鎊蟹，真的?！?/div>

'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: 'he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
“我從來沒聽過它的課，”素甲魚嘆息著說，“他們說它教的是拉釘子和洗臘子?！?/div>

'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.
“正是這樣，正是這樣，”鷹頭獅也嘆息了，于是他們兩個(gè)都用爪子掩住了臉。

'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
“你們每天上多少課呢？”愛麗絲想換個(gè)話題，急忙地問。

'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'
素甲魚回答道：“第一天十小時(shí)，第二天九小時(shí)，這樣下去。”

'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
“真奇怪啊?！睈埯惤z叫道。

'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'
“人們都說上‘多少課’，”素甲魚解釋說，“‘多少課’就是先多后少的意思。”

This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark. 'Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?'
這對(duì)愛麗絲可真是個(gè)新鮮事，她想了一會(huì)兒才接著說道：‘那么第十一天一定該休息了？”

'Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.
“當(dāng)然啦！”素甲魚說。

'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on eagerly.
“那么第十二天怎么辦呢？”愛麗絲很關(guān)心地問。

'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: 'tell her something about the games now.'
“上課的問題談夠了，”鷹頭獅用堅(jiān)決的口氣插活說，“給她講點(diǎn)關(guān)于游戲的事吧?！?/div>

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